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Steve_ Dec 6th 2013 12:30 pm
Re: Any Car experts/mechanics on here?
 
Originally Posted by R I C H (Post 11022812)
What extraordinary cars do people buy that live in those climates?
That's why parkades are heated.

I reside at a ski resort. My neighbours run things like Jettas, an Oldsmobile somethingoranother, Ford Explorer, Ford Focus and various other humdrum cars. I've a Subaru. None are garaged. It's not exactly balmy here with a daytime high today of -18 plus windchill.
-18 ain't -30. There is a real difference between the two. The temperature in Calgary right now without windchill is -27 and overnight the forecast is for -32 with a windchill of -40. Plus add on blowing snow (which admittedly I didn't mention).

-23 without windchill is really the breakpoint between cold and frigid. Canadian Forces did research into it and that's the temperature at which skin freezes on contact with air. Also the temperature used in walk-in freezers and big storage freezers, iirc for long-term food storage.

And -30 is significantly colder than that.

haggis88 Dec 6th 2013 12:36 pm
Re: Any Car experts/mechanics on here?
 
Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 11024700)
-23 without windchill is really the breakpoint between cold and frigid. Canadian Forces did research into it and that's the temperature at which skin freezes on contact with air. Also the temperature used in walk-in freezers and big storage freezers, iirc for long-term food storage.
an interesting tidbit (tidbid? titbit? titbid?) I never knew!

my car read -22 today when i was collecting my Xmas tree, and i loaded it without gloves which in hindsight was bloody stupid...luckily it was only 5 minutes or i could have been in trouble :lol:

Piff Poff Dec 6th 2013 1:03 pm
Re: Any Car experts/mechanics on here?
 
Originally Posted by haggis88 (Post 11024704)
an interesting tidbit (tidbid? titbit? titbid?) I never knew!

my car read -22 today when i was collecting my Xmas tree, and i loaded it without gloves which in hindsight was bloody stupid...luckily it was only 5 minutes or i could have been in trouble :lol:
My car read -30 all day today, apparently windchill was -40ish, brr, suppised to be warmer for the weekend according to OH.

R I C H Dec 7th 2013 3:41 am
Re: Any Car experts/mechanics on here?
 
Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 11024700)
That's why parkades are heated.

-18 ain't -30. There is a real difference between the two.

No parkades here. -26 this morning. Car started first time.

Piff Poff Dec 7th 2013 5:14 am
Re: Any Car experts/mechanics on here?
 
Originally Posted by R I C H (Post 11025293)
No parkades here. -26 this morning. Car started first time.
Daughters car, parked outside (well all our cars are apart from the 'special ones') not plugged in ever, starts all the time, my plug in fell off, so guess that hasn't been working either, slow to start but starts, picking up my PT Cruiser from where it's been parked since the big snowfall last weekend, hopefully it will start.


Erm, so to add, Cruiser took forever to start, it is now in the workshop, to warm up over the weekend, I'll get it back Monday, apparently the gearstick feels frozen solid, so driving the Exploder for a few more days :(

Atlantic Xpat Dec 7th 2013 9:12 pm
Re: Any Car experts/mechanics on here?
 
Balmy +1c when I left St Johns yesterday and oh, I suppose +6 or so here in Heathrow. You mainlanders are soft in the head living in those temps :)


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